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Punta del Este

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Las Vegas or Punta del Este?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Las Vegas for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Las Vegas’s own page.

Choose Punta del Este for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta del Este’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Las Vegas 10, Punta del Este 72: Punta del Este leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Punta del Este 45: Las Vegas leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Punta del Este 22: Las Vegas leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Punta del Este 60: Las Vegas leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Punta del Este 55: Las Vegas leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Punta del Este 45: Punta del Este leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Punta del Este 55: Punta del Este leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Punta del Este 35: Las Vegas leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Punta del Este 42: Las Vegas leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Punta del Este 20: Las Vegas leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Punta del Este 22: Las Vegas leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Punta del Este 32: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Punta del Este.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Las Vegas
Best match
47match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

Punta del Este
42match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Las Vegas in July

40 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Punta del Este in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Punta del Este's temperatures are measured 79 km from the centre, at Rocha.

Punta del Este has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Punta del Este: 1991-2020 normals, Rocha (78.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasPunta del Este
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911911
Elevation610 m11 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasPunta del Este
City population641,9039,277
People per km²1,843455
Museums within 10 km215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.